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Chicken Hotpot Delight
2013-04-29 345 views
The FoodI ordered the small signature chicken hotpot and 2 drinks with my colleague during lunch time Topped with thick savory sauce, the chicken hotpot is served with small chunks of chicken, capsicum, onion, celery and chilli. Initially the sauce very concentrated and saltish but as the waitress starts adding stock to dilute it, it gradually becomes a flavorful and fragrant soup that is tasty and acceptable to my taste buds. There are also extra items eg instant noodle, mushrooms, vegetables,
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The Food
I ordered the small signature chicken hotpot and 2 drinks with my colleague during lunch time Topped with thick savory sauce, the chicken hotpot is served with small chunks of chicken, capsicum, onion, celery and chilli. Initially the sauce very concentrated and saltish but as the waitress starts adding stock to dilute it, it gradually becomes a flavorful and fragrant soup that is tasty and acceptable to my taste buds. There are also extra items eg instant noodle, mushrooms, vegetables, meatballs inside the fridge which range from $1 to $3 per plate. As for the chicken, the meat is very tender and not over-cooked at all and best eaten with white and fluffy rice !

The Price
After service charge and GST, we paid around $15 inclusive of 2 plain rice

Overall
I will definitely come back again and highly recommended to try this!
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Poor Service and Inflexible Staff
2013-04-24 182 views
After the pleasant experience I had from my last visit, i chose this place out of all the restaurants in Novena to celebrate my friend's birthday only to leave with extreme regret. We went there at the time they just open for dinner. We were the ONLY ONES in the entire restaurants. As we both had pretty large bags, we asked the waitress if we could sit at a larger table. She said "No!" cos it will be very crowded later. She already said LATER, NOW there was no one around. ONLY US. It was not as
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After the pleasant experience I had from my last visit, i chose this place out of all the restaurants in Novena to celebrate my friend's birthday only to leave with extreme regret. We went there at the time they just open for dinner. We were the ONLY ONES in the entire restaurants. As we both had pretty large bags, we asked the waitress if we could sit at a larger table. She said "No!" cos it will be very crowded later. She already said LATER, NOW there was no one around. ONLY US. It was not as if this was a buffet and we will be sitting for a couples of hours. I wanted to walk out due to the waitress's INFLEXIBILITY but my friend felt embarrassed to walk out so i gave in and sat down at the TINY TABLE FOR TWO with my bag placed behind me on the chair.

Since it was my friend's birthday, we decided to order more food. We ordered a Large Chicken Hotpot (they have three sizes) and a small Beef Hotpot. On top of that we ordered a glass of cold green tea each. When they placed the hotpot holder on the table, it was already very cramp. I again asked the same waitress if it would be too CRAMP since we ordered the food enough for at least 3 to 4 people but she STUBBORNLY insisted that it was fine and continued to want us to remain at this tiny table.

When both the Large Pot and Small Pots came, true enough it was SO CRAMP. We barely had place to put our drinks in fear we might knock it over. the movement to take the food from the pots was also limited as it was just too cramp. We were three quarter finishing our food and there was nobody coming. the restaurant was empty with all the larger tables EMPTY and here we were like cramp in the tiny space. only when we were finishing up our last bit of food, an elderly couple came in and they too were cramp into the same tiny table as us. the lady asked the same INFLEXIBLE waitress if they could get a larger table and she continued her stubborn ways of rejecting them. CANT THIS WAITRESS SEE IT, US CUSTOMERS JUST WANT TO EAT MORE COMFORTABLY. not to mention this restaurant serves hot pot which means the pot in front of you is lighted and hot and if it is too cramp, it would be dangerous and we could burn ourselves accidentally.

The food is undeniably good, the gravy was thick for both the chicken and the beef and the broth they add to the hotpot when the gravy dries up is also nice. the beef was tender and you hardly need to chew. the beef ball was very springy too. I appreciate such good food, but for such uncomfortable environment and poor service from the stubborn waitress, it is kind of turn off. Price wise, it was not very cheap either, our bill came up to around $50 to $60 plus. this price can get you a much more comfortable environment.
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beef hot pot
2013-01-04 145 views
My girlfriend introduced this place to me, they sell hot pot but not the normal hot pot. We ordered their beef hot pot, it came in the form of beef stew. You can also buy steamboat ingredients and add to the hot pot. Their steamboat ingredients do not come cheap. I got a plate of chinese cabbage and it cost $1.80 for that portion. The stew is pretty thick and tasty. when you finish it with rice, they will add soup the hot pot. You can cook the steamboat ingredient in the tasty stew. The beef is
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 My girlfriend introduced this place to me, they sell hot pot but not the normal hot pot. We ordered their beef hot pot, it came in the form of beef stew. You can also buy steamboat ingredients and add to the hot pot. Their steamboat ingredients do not come cheap. I got a plate of chinese cabbage and it cost $1.80 for that portion. The stew is pretty thick and tasty. when you finish it with rice, they will add soup the hot pot. You can cook the steamboat ingredient in the tasty stew. The beef is so soft and tender. Goes well with the rice.
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A twist to the normal hot pot
2012-12-29 65 views
Judging by the name of the shop, you would probably think it is yet another hot pot restaurant, but NO! this is a different kind of hot pot. They have four types of hot pot, chicken, beef, prawn and fish. There is no soup base but the meat comes with sauce like those claypot chicken with gravy.Upon seating down, there was this unique side dish on the table. It was pickled sze chuan vegetable with chilli spices. The sze chuan vegetable is pretty salty, then mixed with the chilli spices, it tasted
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Judging by the name of the shop, you would probably think it is yet another hot pot restaurant, but NO! this is a different kind of hot pot. They have four types of hot pot, chicken, beef, prawn and fish. There is no soup base but the meat comes with sauce like those claypot chicken with gravy.

Upon seating down, there was this unique side dish on the table. It was pickled sze chuan vegetable with chilli spices. The sze chuan vegetable is pretty salty, then mixed with the chilli spices, it tasted really unique.
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 Their hot pot came in three sizes, small, medium and large. since there were only 2 of us, we ordered the medium chicken pot. they also have three level of spiciness - not spicy, mild spicy, very spicy. we opted for the mild spicy, it turned out to be not too spicy. the gravy is very thick and tasty. it is best eaten with rice as it can be kind of salty. there were a lot of chicken meat but all the meat had bones in it. the meat was very tender so it was easy to remove it from the bones. on top of the chicken, there were also onions, capsicum, garlic and ginger in the gravy. the pot was placed on the mini steamboat burner so it was boiling non stop. After some time, the gravy sort of dried up so we signalled to the waitress, she kindly help us add soup into the pot. the soup is kind of special cos when she added to the pot, the gravy tasted kind of different, it became like stew. it was not diluted in any way which was good.
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 This is the little burner that they placed the pot on. It has this function to increase and decrease the fire so the gravy does not over boil. And somehow this burner did not have the painful eye stinging solid fuel smell.
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 The restaurant was not really big but it was decorated with brightly painted walls with images of their hot pot. Kind of friendly and warm setting. very comfy for those family outings.
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Addictive soup!
2012-03-07 85 views
One of a kind, at first i thought it's like a normal steamboat, but end up it's so addictive! the black gong bao soup base is delicious though at times abit oily. They dont serve ice water, somehow drinking the delicious soup makes me more thirsty. And the sides to add on price on a higher range.. like $2.50 for a few thinly sliced luncheon meat?
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One of a kind, at first i thought it's like a normal steamboat, but end up it's so addictive! the black gong bao soup base is delicious though at times abit oily. They dont serve ice water, somehow drinking the delicious soup makes me more thirsty. And the sides to add on price on a higher range.. like $2.50 for a few thinly sliced luncheon meat?
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a new concept
2011-11-15 34 views
I went to try spicy hot pot with my girlfriend. I think the concept of this restaurant is really unique. They put all their food in a hot pot. We ordered their hotpot chicken. It was really good. totally goes well with white rice. the chicken is so tasty, it is very tender and juicy. the gravy is so mouth watering, not too salty but just right!
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I went to try spicy hot pot with my girlfriend. I think the concept of this restaurant is really unique. They put all their food in a hot pot. We ordered their hotpot chicken. It was really good. totally goes well with white rice. the chicken is so tasty, it is very tender and juicy. the gravy is so mouth watering, not too salty but just right!
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Mini Chicken Hotpot
2011-03-04 71 views
What first caught my attention about this restaurant was the queue of people during dinner time. And when I simply couldn't resist the smell of the yummy hotpots, I joined the long queue and tried to wait patiently for my turn.I was there with my bf so we decided to go for this couple set which consists of the chicken pot plus a spicy prawn hotpot with rice. There was a wide selection of food which we could add into the hotpots and they were 'graded' according to the color plates and prices. We
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What first caught my attention about this restaurant was the queue of people during dinner time. And when I simply couldn't resist the smell of the yummy hotpots, I joined the long queue and tried to wait patiently for my turn.

I was there with my bf so we decided to go for this couple set which consists of the chicken pot plus a spicy prawn hotpot with rice. There was a wide selection of food which we could add into the hotpots and they were 'graded' according to the color plates and prices. We decided to wait for the hotpots to come and then decide on the add-ons.

We were rather dismayed with the rather small quantity of food. There were only four prawns in the midst of fries all soaked wet in the gravy. And after a few mouthfuls, the chicken in the hotpot seemed to be half gone so we decided to be healthy and added a plate of mushrooms. The add-ons are rather expensive but I guess people still go for them due to the lack of varieties of food served.

I also noticed that everyone at each table would order a drink. Be prepared for the saltiness of food served. Well, I do believe it would be long before I step into the restaurant again so good luck to those who have yet to try.
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